This map documents the journeys around
Upper Canada carried out by Lieutenant
Governor Simcoe between 1793
and 1795. Nearly 20 years later during the
War of 1812, the use of internal water
routes like the Thames River to
Détroit, Georgian Bay from York via
Lake Simcoe and the fur traders route along
the Ottawa River to Lake Nippissing and on
to the Upper Lakes, continued to be vitally
important to to the life of Upper Canada.
The roads surveyed during these trips
remained incomplete when war came leaving
the water routes the only sure means of
transportation for heavy goods and large
numbers of men.

At the time this map was drawn Fort
Détroit, Niagara and Michilimackinac
remained under British control. Many of the
forts that played a role in the war on the
Canadian side of the Border like Fort
George and Fort Malden were built a few
years later when control of the posts on
the American side of the border were turned
over to the United States in 1796.

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